Against a backdrop of insufficient resources for health and enormous health challenges in Kenya, Transparency International-Kenya (TI-Kenya) commissioned its first on-the-ground study of Kenya’s health sector. The report was launched on 31 January 2011 at the Nairobi Safari Club. The study used both qualitative and quantitative methods in national, provincial, district and rural/community health facilities [...]

There has been a renewed focus on sexual reproductive health worldwide, especially regarding  Millennium Development Goal 5 on improving maternal health. The World Health Organization has for a long time been an important source of policy, guidelines, and information on various health topics. There are newly updated and catalogued information resources on sexual reproductive health [...]

“Nothing about us without us” is the slogan that guides the programmes targeting persons with visual impairment. Persons with visual impairment, women and youth, in Kenya want to be involved in all processes of designing programmes where they are themselves a target group. This has been the case of  past projects which has led to [...]

Beneficiaries of  the introductory learning course on “HIV/AIDS 2005-2010 have been invited to apply for an alumni seminar to share good practices and new developments in the response to HIV. The application deadline is 15th February, 2011. The Seminar; “Regional Alumni Seminar on HIV/AIDS and Gender”, is hosted by the German International Cooperation – GIZ.  [...]

Over ten years ago, world leaders met and agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight specific goals to combat extreme poverty in the world. 2015 was set as the year by which the MDGs would be achieved. With less than 5 years to 2015, Kenya has increased focus on the MDGs especially those that [...]

Departments and organizations that have not submitted their input on the Annual Operational Plan (AOP) 5 report have one week to do so. This was decided during the first meeting of the Health Sector Coordinating Committee (HSCC) Steering Committee held on the 19th January 2011 at Afya house. 

The fact that young women aged 15 to 24 years have higher HIV infection rates than men their age is well known. The Kenya Indicator Survey (KAIS) 2009, reports that young women between these ages were four times more likely to be infected than young men of the same age. This, according to a publication [...]

“Can you imagine a future in which marginalised sexualities are accepted in Africa? A future in which people from sexual minorities are able to go to school, to get health care including HIV services, to work, and to play their part in their families and communities, just as heterosexuals do. A future in which politicians [...]

Participants of the second phase of the Capacity Building in Effective Health (CBEH) programme are gearing up for stakeholder meetings to be carried out next week in their respective countries. This is after a successful kick-off seminar which took place early December in Mombasa, Kenya.

“If you want to change the world, invest in an adolescent girl. An adolescent girl stands at the doorway of adulthood. In that moment, much is decided. If she stays in school, remains healthy, and gains real skills, she will marry later, have fewer and healthier children, and earn an income that she’ll invest back [...]